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My Photographs

Over the years, I have found that a recurring urge to do personal photography comes and goes. As with a lot of things, I tend to get obsessively and passionately involved for some period of time, and then it all passes—sometimes for years or even decades—before coming around again.These interests always do come around again eventually. With photography, I love to find images of rust, decay and deterioration . . . which is really about the passing of Time, the temporal nature of human culture and its artifacts. Some "pretty" photographs simply demand to be taken.
And I love abstractions.